Can the iPhone5 be hacked remotely by a hacker?

I work for a technology company and one of our employees shared an incident about her iPhone5 being hacked remotely. The hacker gained access to her device overnight while her phone was unlocked. The hacker watched her baby monitor video feed from the baby monitoring app (including taking pictures and video from the device), posted about the baby to her FB account, browsed on Safari, including some searches of French books on amazon and Scott Trading sites. When I spoke with the mobile device team, they were not familiar with any iOS security gaps that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of an iPhone, however, the activities on her device suggest that this is possible.


I found some articles from 2009 regarding a SMS virus that allowed hackers to gain remote access to a device, however, our mobile device team is certain that this gap would be closed by now.


Is anyone familiar with an existing security gap on the iPhone5? What would you recommend would be the next action for her? She is intending to delete her icloud account, change all her passwords and wipe her device.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.1

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 1:23 PM

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Feb 25, 2018 11:56 AM in response to Kelleyisfromgilbert

Kelleyisfromgilbert wrote:


It is my Apple ID and password, it has all of the security on it, I have changed it three times, with the two step authentication. His Apple Watch is running on my iPhone, I have the picture from my cell phone carrier, the problem is how does he keep getting in and why can’t Apple see what my cell phone carrier seen?

Then post the picture you have. Apple probably can't "see" what your cellular carrier saw because your cellular carrier didn't know what they were talking about.

Feb 25, 2018 12:06 PM in response to Kelleyisfromgilbert

You have provided absolutely no evidence at all that you have been 'hacked'. You haven't even managed to explain what it is you're seeing in a coherent way.

If you have a restraining order against whoever it is you believe has 'hacked' your account, then talk to your lawyer or the prosecutor's office.


If you actually want help figuring out what's going on, then you need to explain IN DETAIL what it is you're seeing, what you've done, and what the result was.

I HIGHLY recommend you start your own thread instead of hijacking this one, which has nothing to do with your problem.

Feb 25, 2018 2:33 PM in response to Kelleyisfromgilbert

Kelleyisfromgilbert wrote:


I have the picture I took at my cell phone carrier, his Apple Watch was running on my account, they told me to take it to Apple, I did, his Apple Watch was logged off.. there was no way to tell if he was connected earlier besides the picture, no one at Apple had an answer.

If you're paying for his Apple Watch services on your cellular bill, cancel it. However, the fact that his Apple Watch is on your cellular account will not, in any way, give him access to your Apple ID or your iPhone.

May 26, 2014 5:36 AM in response to eborz

see if there are apps on your computer that you did not install yourself, the most obvious are Teamviewer and Logmein, but there are more such apps. When they are running these boys can enter your mac at all time. Look in SystemPreferences->Users&Groups->LoginItems what is started at startup (and thus running always): begin with removing everything listed in the LoginItems (with the minus sign underneath): this will not uninstall anything, but you have to start these apps manually when you need them (with is better always).

May 26, 2014 8:00 AM in response to suzanne3382

My girlfriend just got a black square message (not a normal SMS but white writing on a black background that opened when she unlocked her phone, then disappeared) saying your phone has just been hacked by olgie. Then the find my phone app kicked in giving out our address, even though she didn't have that app installed. Obviously pretty disconcerting. Not sure where to go from here as there is so little info I can find... Any advice would be appreciated.

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